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Originally Posted by gigy  aaggoswami, i didnt get your point of asus motherboard wearing out due to it being dual layer. asus boards are a reliable lot and this board my friend bought for 8k approx rocks. why recommend intel boards. gigabyte and abit have much better ones which can be in budget. |
I am deeply involved in assembling/buying these items. ASUS gave much problems within 1 year in the budget range motherbords. They are really attractive. But here in my city Vadodara there is problem of wearing out and the ASUS products being replaced very late. If at all you have easy acces to any of the Major cities/live in major cities, then its fine.
Intel motherboards are less tasty as far as feature set is considered.
But the G33 board will support upto 12 usb 2.0, and it has HDMI ( High Defeniton Media Interface ). Plus they are very consistent in performacne and stability. ASUS scores well above the Rs. 8500 category. Not in the budget or slighty above the budget range. But then if you are spending around 8500, well you can get an even better motherboard from intel.
This is my third motherboard and let me tell you that if RMA is not quick , it will spoil even the best experience you have from any manufacturers.
In more than 20 Desktop mahcines I was involved, my experience says that:
MSI motherboards will work best with nVidia chipsets.
Gigabyte will work best with AMD chipsets.
ASUS can work well with nVidia chipsets, but mind well nVidia chips are somewhat expensive, and for the same amount you get better chipset+motherboard from Intel.
Yes Intel motherboards lack Over Clocking (OC ) features, but then they are do their job in the least frustating manner.
If forturne permits, I will tell you more why Intel motherboards are as good as ASUS.
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um, aaggoswami, though i do agree that asus RMA sucks, I'm pretty sure their motherboards have more than 2 pcb layers.
And regarding servers. AMD still has the advantage due to its architecture- the memory controller etc.
If performance is what you want , then yes, intel is what you should be getting. On the other hand , the AMD has a much better selection of feature rich motherboards, and are more VFM.
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@GreenHorn:
AMD had advantage till now before Core2Duo came out. Initially the Opterons were good, but then came the Core 2 Duo with better architecture and thermal envelope. AMD came up with " Barcelona " core ( that took an eternity to come up). It was like trying to beat a VTEC(intel ) Honda Civic ( on runway sort of road surface ) in drag race with Hyundai Elantra 2.0 (US Spec ) ). Civic comes out best.
Soon Barcelona core had TLB ( Table Lookup Buffer ) error and if fixed with BIOS workaround, performance would go down. Now the latest B3 stepping are avaliable, but intel is way, way ahead. AMD has micro architectre advantge, but it is not very superior like Athlon 64 over P4.
AMD has lost the server ground. It has a lot of torque and can handle moderate duties, but when heavy load comes up, it need power ( clock speed ).